Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 145
Only Krnovel
Episode 145 – Rest and Reorganization (1)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 74
Current location: Tier Basement, Ski Resort
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
My body slides down the ski slope at high speed amidst the falling snow.
I focused my entire mind on one point and focused on the front. As the surrounding scenery changed in an instant, I saw people looking at me with worried expressions.
Right now.
The feather tattoo on my shoulder heated up slightly, and my entire body moved with a pounding sensation, as if an invisible hand had grabbed my collar and thrown me.
…
When I came to, I found myself floating in the air.
“Aaaahhh!”
— Boom!
I heard the sound of the snow-covered floor exploding from afar, and then a giant man who seemed to be almost 2 meters tall flew into the air and grabbed me.
— Boom! Slurp!
I was able to land without getting seriously hurt because my strong brother took most of the impact of hitting the ground.
“Oh, really, why is it so difficult? Thank you, Jincheol. “If it’s not my brother, practice like this -”
As I was talking, I felt a little strange and looked back at my brother. My brother seemed to be deep in thought somewhere.
“brother?”
“Oh, it’s nothing. By the way, it seems that ‘teleportation’ is quite difficult, right? “I think I’ve seen it 7 or 8 times in the past two days, and there’s almost a 50% chance that it’s moving to a strange place.”
“sorry.”
“There is nothing to be sorry about as it is an agreed-upon practice, but do you have to do it while skiing?”
“After trying it a few times, it’s easy to write while standing still, but it’s difficult to write while moving, and it’s even more difficult to write while moving quickly.”
“Is that so? “There is a need to make practice difficult on purpose.”
Easy profit!
Ari arrived with fluid movements and the sound of sliding on the slope. Soon Songi and Elena arrived as well.
As soon as Ari arrived, he pointed it out with an amused expression.
“Whenever you look at a scene where a mistake is made, the front and back and left and right are generally accurate, but there is a tendency to keep moving upwards?”
“I know.”
“My guess is, when you focus your teleportation, isn’t it because you’re afraid of your body going into the ground that you instinctively keep focusing upward?”
“hmm… .”
“So to speak, it feels like this. When you decide which direction you want to move from your initial position, it seems like you instinctively turn up slightly for fear of going into the ground. “I raised it slightly so that you wouldn’t notice it, but since it moved more than 10 meters in that twisted direction, the error in terms of the arrival point became very large.”
“That’s a convincing analysis.”
It may be new to you, but perhaps Ari has more experience with ‘using supernatural powers’ than I do, so he came up with a pretty plausible theory.
While I was thinking about it, there was a hand shaking my hair and clothes, which fell to the floor and rolled around, covered in snow.
I felt something soft, so I turned my head back and saw Elena casually brushing my hair.
…
As soon as their eyes met, they both took a step back in embarrassment. Her actions didn’t seem to have been something Elena had particularly thought about.
“Oh, there was so much snow that I didn’t even know… .”
“Thank you.”
“…”
“…”
Awkward atmosphere. Fortunately, Ari broke the silence and continued.
“It seems quite dangerous to practice teleportation with your own body every time. Jincheol can’t always be near you and save you. How about borrowing Pero’s body? Even if you move to the sky, you can just flap and come down.”
After hearing those words, Songi opened her mouth and whispered something to Pero.
— Beep!
“Aaaah! Ahhh! “Song, take him away!”
Soon the very angry parrot started tearing out Ari’s hair, and the rest of the people started leaving the ski resort, laughing hysterically.
Aside from being funny, it was a meaningless suggestion.
The source of my ability to teleport is a tattoo engraved on my body.
It cannot be used while possessed. I already checked yesterday before Ari suggested it.
After passing through the gateway room, you are given a week of rest.
Ari’s blessing had already confirmed that there was no further space to explore on the first floor, so we just took our time and rested.
At first, I didn’t understand why they opened the second floor a week later instead of opening it right away, but as time went by, I naturally understood.
If the second floor had been opened in advance, we would have spent time exploring the second floor instead of resting. So, it seems like the hotel intentionally left the second floor open to provide relaxation time.
We moved to a facility that everyone wanted to enjoy.
Songi, who learned of the darkness hidden in Elena’s heart in ‘Perfect Life’, actively led us to the ski resort, and we all spent the first day there together.
Of course, not everyone liked skiing. About half of them left for other facilities the next day.
In this way, everyone took a break in a place of their choice and prepared for the second floor.
However, this place is ultimately a hotel. A place where countless trials await us.
I could never rest comfortably.
There are several important challenges that must be addressed during this period.
*
“Hitch!”
“Oppa Jincheol? are you okay?”
“Oh, it’s okay. “I’m coughing because I was rolling around in the snow trying to save some guy.”
I felt a tingle inside.
“… sorry.”
“it’s okay! Let’s eat something. Anyway, this is my first time coming to this ski resort and it’s unique. “It feels like clouds surround the entire mountain?”
Songi turned her head back and forth with an interested expression to check.
“What’s outside the clouds?”
“There might be nothing unexpected. Like ‘climbing room’. “That place also returns to the starting point if it goes farther than a certain range from the mountain, so it might be similar.”
After that conversation, we started eating simple sausages, hot bars, fish cakes, etc. prepared at the ski resort.
After a while, the conversation started naturally.
The topic we bring up most often since the break began is ‘sealing.’
Jincheol spoke first.
“Anyway, I’m worried. “It would be incredibly difficult for Gain to proceed without this guy.”
Ari also answered with a worried expression.
“that’s right. Other abilities are a waste, but the biggest problem is understanding the scenario. Can we proceed without that ability? .”
Seeing everyone worrying about ‘my absence’ somehow made me feel better. But in the end, I couldn’t hide my worries. If everyone else fails while I’m away, won’t I die without being able to do anything?
“Everyone, cheer up. “If you think about it, the rooms of the curse were all broken without understanding the scenario, right?”
Jincheol sighed louder at those words.
“I just woke up dying ignorantly. “I guess I’ll have to do it that way again.”
My conversation with my colleagues was premised on one fact.
At least in the first room on the second floor, I am the one who will be sealed.
Although he is the owner of a legacy, he has acquired various supernatural powers and tools, such as descent, pen, and teleportation, even apart from the legacy. Even the blessing was strengthened the most times to gain the powerful power of ‘scenario understanding’.
It’s nothing compared to someone who only got two or three inheritances like Ari’s first hotel party, but now I’m also in a state of overgrowth compared to other people.
Ari opened his mouth again.
“It’s not a problem that you can just worry about. “Except for Ga-in, everyone else needs to grow in their own way.”
Songi answered worriedly.
“It makes sense, but is there a way? “The second floor opens in 5 days.”
“There are still rooms left on the first floor.”
The last cursed room remaining on the first floor.
No. 104, ‘Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam’.
When the story about that room came out, everyone fell silent.
Why are we reluctant to use Hotel Go?
It was only when there were several cursed rooms left that I avoided them because they were the most difficult, but now the difficulty of the rooms themselves is no longer a problem.
We have already reached the gateway room, which is a higher level than Hotel Go, and received numerous rewards.
Hotel Go’s threats, which have already been revealed, can be easily dealt with.
Cultists from the old school? If Jincheol uses stars, he can wipe them out all by himself.
If I use the grimoire’s possession skill well, I can kill most of them, although it may take some time.
The problem is ‘state’. To be exact, it is the ‘Descent’ itself that ‘the Lord’ left behind for me.
I decided to be honest about what everyone was worried about.
“Isn’t what everyone is worried about is that something strange might happen to me because of ‘Descent’?”
Ari admitted right away.
“that’s right. I really don’t know what will happen. In the worst case scenario, you may turn around completely, losing control to the ‘Son of Heaven’.”
“…”
“If there had been any red pills left, I would have suggested that you take the red pill and re-enter Hotel High… . Of course, it’s meaningless because Pero has already eaten it.”
Songi protested weakly.
“Pero ate it and was very active in the Gate Room.”
Because it was true, no one refuted it.
Elena responded as if she was worried.
“Can we really say that something like that will happen?”
“I was just talking about the worst possibility. The problem is that this hotel is a place where the most terrible and ominous possibilities tend to become reality. “Can I ask you some advice?”
“I already asked yesterday. The answer came out meaningless. “Please think carefully before deciding.”
“Your patron owl is sometimes less helpful than Perot.”
Ari said it was just a guess based on a vague feeling.
…
But I understood that Ari was not just speaking by intuition.
I’m just saying it that way because I don’t want to explain the unclear details one by one.
I too reached a similar conclusion through reasoning.
The identity of Advent. The inhuman personality of the Son of Heaven that we have already experienced.
And while progressing through the gateway room, the owl gave me advice that even threw an irrational number.
When I enter Hotel High School, there is a very high possibility that I will transform into ‘something different.’
How is it that ‘Ju’ is able to try strange things that other prisoners couldn’t do?
He has some secret.
I shook my head lightly and pushed the unanswered concerns to the back of my head.
Similarly, Jincheol, who thought it was a conversation without an answer, changed the topic.
“Have we already discussed this topic several times? And I gave up every time. If, as Ari said, the possibility of Ga-in betraying her because of a guy called ‘Ju’ is the problem, then we cannot enter a situation like now where Ga-in is the strongest among us. “Let’s find another way.”
In the end, I came back to the original theory.
It is almost certain that I will be sealed in the first room on the second floor.
Is there any way for people other than me to grow during the break?
The first method, entering the hotel high school, was rejected again.
This is because there was speculation that this was a room where I, who had grown the strongest among the group, could possibly betray.
I can’t say for sure if this is true until I enter, but if it’s true, it’s worse than the second floor where I will be sealed.
So what is the second means?
Already last night, an idea from Grandpa Mukseong came to mind.
Elena, who had the same thought, opened her mouth.
“I think it would be a good idea to use Eunsol’s monkey hands one more time. “It wouldn’t be that difficult if it was like the old Nightmare Butterfly event.”
Ari pointed out.
“Elena, it’s not the monkey hand, it’s the ‘hand of greed.’”
“Achacha!”
The ‘Hand of Greed’ is said to bring only rewards to the owner of the ability without any penalty.
In fact, Eunsol was reluctant to use the Hand of Greed because of its selfish characteristics, but everyone believes that the Hand of Greed is much more useful than it looks.
The means for growth in hotels are more limited than you might think.
Like games that encourage hard work, you cannot grow endlessly by hunting endlessly at the hunting ground.
In fact, the only place that can be farmed is the Curse Room, and the Curse Room disappears as soon as it is resolved.
In this way, in a place where the means of growth itself are limited, ‘Hand of Greed’ is essentially the ability to periodically create a ‘mini hunting ground’.
At this point, the brief meeting at the ski resort ended.
*
– Han Ga-in
I left the ski resort and returned to the first floor of the hotel.
Perhaps because it was evening time, people who had been resting in other places began to gather in room 105 one by one.
As soon as we entered room 105, welcoming the reunion, everyone was momentarily speechless.
A huge hazmat suit placed near the entrance.
What on earth should I do with that thing?
If you count from the day I got the protective suit, it’s already been 3 days.
For three days, the protective clothing blinded us.
Even though the clothes, which were almost the size of a person, were saying, ‘Do something to me,’ everyone passed by as if they didn’t see anything. If someone accidentally touched it, everyone would flinch.
We must address the issue of protective clothing.
Unsinkable with a sword, unsinkable with water fire!
Those clothes are not just an escape tool, but very useful armor.
You can’t avoid it like this forever. That’s why we placed that item at the entrance to the room so we would never forget it.
“for a moment! fist!”
It’s been three days since I got the hazmat suit.
Finally, Ari put his gun on his back and opened his mouth.
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